[T]hatâ€™s a pretty good question. At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place?

It turns out that the answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER. During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. â€œThe Jews should have offered themselves to the butcherâ€™s knife,â€ he said. â€œThey should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.â€ â€œCollective suicide,â€ he told his biographer, â€œwould have been heroism.â€

The so-called peace movement certainly has the right to make Gandhiâ€™s way their way, but their efforts to make collective suicide American foreign policy just wonâ€™t cut it in this country.When Americanâ€™s think of heroism, we think of the young American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to prevent another Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein.

Gandhi probably wouldn’t approve, but I can live with that.

Now, let’s be clear, Senator Thompson and I probably don’t agree on what the proper course of action in Iraq is, but he’s absolutely right that arguing that it’s never appropriate to fight, even when your very existence is at stake, is never the right answer.

Resolving disputes peacefully is always the preferred course of action, but there are times when it’s war is the only option.